ILM 2 Beta 3

a sprinkling of understanding Workflow in ILM 2

September 16, 2008

So by now all of you know that understanding Windows Workflow Foundation is going to be quite helpful in implementing ILM 2. Having lived 9 of the last 12 months in Redmond, WA, I now understand a lot more about sprinkling So I thought I would provide a sprinkling of understanding about Windows Workflow Foundation: a categorization of the built in workflows. Cateory Activity Composite Notes Conditional Invoke Web Service Conditional Conditional Activity Group Conditional IfElse Conditional Policy Akin to a switch statement or Select Case Conditional While Custom Code Error Compensate Error Fault Handler Error Throw Flow Delay Flow EventDriven Flow Listen X 2+ event driven Flow Parallel x 2+ sequence for each Flow State Flow Sequence X Flow SetState Flow StateInitialization X Flow Suspend Flow Terminate Flow Transaction Scope http://feeds.

a sprinkling of understanding Workflow in ILM 2 -- Comment

September 16, 2008

Very nice David, I would also urge readers to chec… Brad Turner - Sep 3, 2008Very nice David, I would also urge readers to check out Mark Gabarra’s blog for information relating WF and ILM 2. I also hope that we’ll be able to goad our own Paul Divan into bringing his experiences to the blogosphere!

ILM 2 Beta 3 Bug: Action Process Function Evaluator Activity doesn't work when using only one field

September 12, 2008

Yeah, so this one frustrated me for awhile and if … Brad Turner - Sep 3, 2008Yeah, so this one frustrated me for awhile and if you hadn’t discovered this I would have lost even more time!

ILM 2 Beta 3 Bug: Action Process Function Evaluator Activity doesn't work when using only one field

September 12, 2008

ID: 367381 Description Action Process Function Evaluator Activity doesn’t work when using only one field, but when I concatenate with 2 it works. Repro Steps Create an action Process Add one activity – Function Evaluator Set a destination to an attribute (like DisplayName) and select only one field in the value – LastName Then build an MPR to apply to All People (don’t check Grants Permission), Operations: Create and Modify

Expanding a Windows Server 2008 System partition on a HyperV Guest

September 2, 2008

Yeah, WOW, not a quick and easy process by any means! Brad Turner - Sep 3, 2008Yeah, WOW, not a quick and easy process by any means! Good Info - Important Note: If you are dealing with a vm guest attached to a Hyper-V Cluster, You’ll need to use Failover Cluster Manager in Administration Tools on one of the Cluster Nodes - After making the change, go to a Command Prompt and enter the following:

Expanding a Windows Server 2008 System partition on a HyperV Guest

September 2, 2008

While building out some virtual machines for our ILM 2 Beta 3 environment… We setup a few virtual machines 64 bit Windows Server 2008 SP 1 (since SP 1 is built in to the RTM) running on HyperV. Everything is very slick! Except we only set aside 16 GB for the virtual disk for the system partition. Despite installing SQL, SharePoint, and ILM 2 to another drive the system partition quickly filled up, and didn’t have enough room for Visual Studio (even though I wanted to install it on another partition).

Pending Exports Report in ILM

July 30, 2008

Hopefully this topic will stir up some excitement among those wondering how to query objects in the connector space. The technique I am about to explicate for you works for both exports and imports. As many of you aware, my colleague and fellow ILM MVP Brad Turner created the community reporting pack for MIIS/ILM some time ago. This is a package of reports written in SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS).

I like my passwords Plain --in plaintext that is

July 3, 2008

Bug in ILM2 Beta 3 – go vote on MSConnect to register your taste! Look for Bug ID 354953 Do you like your passwords plain or with encrypted butter? As for me and my house we will choose the encrypted butter! I mean passwords. ILM 2 codeless provisioning looks great! You can add complex rules without code and then you can even see these rules as they get synchronized into the ILM synch engine (what we know and love from the MIIS 2003 and ILM 2007 days).

Tech Ed -- Lotsa Buzz ILM 2 and CLM

June 16, 2008

On Tuesday Bob Muglia made a big announcement – ILM 2 Beta 3 has been released. While the beta install is only 64 bit on Microsoft Connect you can download the 32-bit Virtual PC. At the ILM 2 booth at Tech Ed the Microsoft ILM Product Group and I were handing them out like crazy. Thanks to Nima for inviting me to participate at the booth. Best session I went was by Candy Stark from MS IT.